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Wesley Pittman First Purchase!
9 October 2015 | 41 replies
So your current rents, divided by 2, would be $1,000 in income to put toward your mortgage?
Annette A. brainstorm: own land what would you do with it to make money?
13 November 2015 | 88 replies
I have a couple options...1-i can divide my land now into 2 and in 5 years i can divide each piece again- then having four w/o the red tape of sub dividing2-if i want to do 4 cabins now, town code is that that is considered subdividing and i would have to go through the planning board- I could do one well and septic...  
Christopher Gill To Own or Rent: Combining the Best of Both Worlds! - Part 2
13 December 2016 | 22 replies
What I think you need to really focus on is rather than trying to divide the pie in a new way, you need to create / add NEW VALUE. 
Michael Finkelshteyn Clearing title with dead trustees and heirs
10 February 2016 | 11 replies
If there is no will then a deceased persons partial interest in the property gets divided again by the number of heirs that person has. 
Justin Atkinson Pay off rental or buy more?
2 May 2016 | 2 replies
Dividing the $122,468.54 into that gives me $432/month.
Andrew Taylor How Would You Pitch This Deal?
7 May 2016 | 12 replies
How they do this is underestimate expenses, self manage the property, etc.Typically a property showing low operational expenses has hidden problems with deferred maintenance.If you take for example the expenses of 76,000 and divide by the gross expected rents 345,000 that you have verified to be real with no rent credits or above market rents for taking on questionable tenants you get seller stated 22% all in costs for the complex.So 76,000 / 345,000 = 22%Most older buildings for eviction, maintenance, management, etc. you use 50% of gross expected rents.
Trevor B. Dallas TX, PD Shooting
8 July 2016 | 5 replies
Unfortunately we are a divided and polarized nation.
Justin C. Hello from a new investor in Dallas!
10 October 2016 | 22 replies
I did not use an entity until I had well over 50 individual houses and even then, I used one entity to divide my personal and real estate filings.  
Michael Frank How to divide multiple houses on the same property into SFRs
28 September 2016 | 6 replies
Keep setback laws in mind too.Generally speaking, dividing up properties like this increases the value of each property IF dividing the properties is the highest and best use for the land. 
Ryan Parnow I am an intermediate investor. I feel stuck. What do I do next?
26 February 2017 | 59 replies
The duplex alone is -3514.Give you a tool:sum all expenses per month (unique per property)divide that by the GSI that property generatesthis derives the expense ratio of that propertyI've run mine at ~30%, but some approach 45-50%.